Yew Cheong Hou

• PhD
• Universiti Tenaga Nasional

The research focuses on the development of a robust home service robot that is capable of doing multiple types of household chores. This work considers the problem of garment perception and folding procedure by a home service robot, focusing on the task of recognizing a piece of spread-out garment on a flat platform. The robotic platform setup is a...

In nuclear and radiation-related industries, it is crucial to ensure that the radiation dose exposure to the radiation worker is maintained below the permissible dose limit. A radiation map is a useful tool for visualizing the radiation distribution across the work area and for coordinating activities involving the hotspots (high radiation areas)....

Current technological advancement and pressing environmental issues emphasise the need for better energy management to minimise wasting depleting resources. Energy consumption can generally be divided into two, namely residential and commercial. Commercial energy consumption involves commercial buildings that include, but not limited to, banks, hot...

This article presents a collision avoidance system for multiple robots based on the current autonomous car collision avoidance system. The purpose of the system is to improve the current autonomous car collision avoidance system by including data input of other vehicles’ velocity and positioning via vehicle-to-vehicle communication into the current...

In this paper, a complete description of the design process for a four-legged locomotion robot or also known as quadrupedal robot will be presented. The quadrupedal robot is purposely designed as the Messenger Robot 2 (MR2) to participate in Robocon 2019. To overcome the challenges in Robocon 2019, each leg of the quadrupedal robot is designed with...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 1.3 million deaths occur worldwide each year due to traffic accidents alone. This figure elevates traffic mishaps to be the eight leading cause of death. According to another study the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the major cause of road deaths and injur...

In this article, we present a review on the recent advancement in flexible deformable object modeling for dexterous manipulation in robotic system. Flexible deformable object is one of the most research topics in computer graphic, computer vision, and robotic literature. The deformable models are known as the construction of object with material pa...

This work considers the problem of garment handling by a general household robot that focuses on the task of classification and pose estimation of a hanging garment in unfolding procedure. Classification and pose estimation of deformable objects such as garment are considered a challenging problem in autonomous robotic manipulation because these ob...

One of the challenging tasks for general household robot of doing household work is to manipulate deformable objects such as garments. The improper folding procedure by the robot will cause the failures such as generating wrinkles, cause the garment to misalign and the following folding process will possibly fail. Moreover, given different types an...

This paper presents a mass-spring model applied to the manipulation of an elastic deformable object for home service robot application. A system is also proposed that is used to fold a piece of rectangular cloth from a specific initial condition using a robot. The cloth is modeled as a three-dimensional object in a two-dimensional quadrangular mesh...

This paper presents the modeling of deformable objects within the computer graphics. The method to model a physically correct simulator using a mass spring model for string simulation is proposed. The outline of this project is to design a dynamic model of a string. The string t is represented by a model that discretizes the object into a network o...

This paper presents a mass-spring model applied in the manipulation of elastic deformable object for home service robot application. In this paper, we present a system used to fold a piece of rectangular cloth from a specific initial condition using robot. The cloth is modeled as a 3D object in a 2D quadrangular mesh based on a mass-spring system a...

This paper presents a method to identify the edges and corners of clothes in an image using image processing methods. In clothes manipulation, it is important for the GUI program to identify the shape of clothes before spreading and folding. The first step for clothes manipulation is that the robot needs to grab two real corners so the clothes can...